The extent of the illiteracy epidemic in Michigan and elsewhere demands more than simply switching curriculum materials in ...

Efforts to put strict conditions on additional school funding to the states to improve outcomes have already been undercut by ...

Rather than relying solely on phonetics to help students learn to read, the Scarborough's Rope twines several things together such as knowledge, phonics, decoding words, encoding words and ...

A "return to play" reverses a trend educators have described over the past decade, from pre-K to second grade, away from ...

McGrath recommends finding a credible reading list for your children’s age and having them pick the books they want to read.

Two students play a card game identifying letter sounds in Vanessa ... In a recent one, master teacher Chrissie York led a ...

NAEP — known as the nation’s report card — painted a grim picture about reading skills ... Initial analysis suggested the science of reading — which is often understood as just phonics — deserves ...

Last month, we got the latest results from the Nation’s Report Card ... to guess words instead of sounding them out.

When Carolin Purser invited me to attend the 30th Plain Talk About Literacy and Learning, an annual New Orleans gathering of literacy experts and educators, my reaction was, "This should be ...

Or to districts such as New Berlin and Cudahy, which didn’t wait for the state law to pass before embracing the phonics-oriented ... most recent state report cards for schools.

One youngster who had successfully recognized “children” on a word-recognition card was unable to read ... The House That Jack Built. With this “phonics” method, says Flesch, educators ...